Workers begin digging up Arafat corpse

WilliamSpain

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Workers began digging up the body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as part of a new probe into his 2004 death, CNN reports. The exhumation started Tuesday with the removal of his mausoleum's glass and marble tombstone, but could take up to two weeks. It was sparked by an investigation by French authorities, who opened a murder inquiry after radioactive polonium-210 was found on some of his personal effects, the cable news network noted. Arafat is buried in the town of Ramallah in the West Bank.

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